This conversation highlights the critical need for balance in sports nutrition—avoiding the extremes of chronic high-carb fueling or strict keto approaches. Dr. Johnathan Edwards and Peter Defty emphasize the importance of building metabolic capacity to gain metabolic flexibility, proper training strategies including minimizing chronic stress, and personalized/individualized nutrition. Unfortunately, with all the hype around outright performance metrics at the very pinnacle of sports, the very real and inevitable negative impacts of carbohydrate overconsumption get drowned out and remain a topic few sports nutritionists, coaches and athletes are willing to have a frank and open conversation about. This conversation is essential to everyone, from Pro to beginner so each person can achieve that optimal balance of performance and health to achieve “Higher Health & Peak Performance”. To learn more about Optimizing your fat metabolism: https://ofm.io To access products to help you with improving your metabolism and performance: https://vespapower.com References: Breaking the Cycle of Bad Eating and Poor Sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdn2c81yDpA High Carbohydrate Athletic Fueling. A Fad Metabolic Dumpster Fire, Part 1 https://hammernutrition.com/blogs/endurance-news-weekly/high-carbohydrate-athletic-fueling-a-fad-metabolic-dumpster-fire-part-1 High Carbohydrate Athletic Fueling. A Fad Metabolic Dumpster Fire, Part 2 https://hammernutrition.com/blogs/endurance-news-weekly/high-carbohydrate-athletic-fueling-a-fad-metabolic-dumpster-fire-part-2 Episode 407: David Roche - Leadville 100 Mile Historic Win & Course Record https://zachbitter.com/hpo-episode-407